Kiwanis Club Receives VEW Civic Award Ceremony
About 30 people attended the VEW Civic Award ceremony at the VFW DAV hall for the Logan Kiwanis Club recognized for outstanding community service. Kiwanis officers and VFW leaders spoke on child welfare efforts and local activities during 1956.
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Kiwanis Club
Logan Kiwanis Club
Eging
Veterans Foreign Wars
VFW Dav
James Moorehead
Hocking Vfw
Charles
Kiwanis
Hocking County
Moorehead
Brenick
VFW
Ingraham
Dean Collison
Kiwanian
New A Testing Series Slated
Washington reports the Atomic Energy Commission will begin a new series of low yield nuclear tests at the Nevada proving grounds west of Las Vegas late this spring. The tests aim at tactical defense weapons and emphasize anti aircraft missiles and artillery with limited yields, while high yield tests are excluded.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada Proving Grounds
Las Vegas
Eisenhower
High Price Trend Seen In Housing
A Senate report warns rising new home prices push housing to serve mainly upper income groups. It says middle income families are squeezed out, while low income families face shortages despite eligibility for low rent public housing.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Housing Subcommittee
Senate probes press Eisenhower Middle East plan
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations panels question Secretary Dulles as they review Eisenhower's Middle East program. Humphrey predicts two weeks of hearings exposing perceived policy failures while Aiken criticizes harassment. Truman urges clearer action and Congress oversight.
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Secretary of
State Dulles
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Humphrey
D-Minn
Middle East
U. S
Sen. Aiken
R-Vi
Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate
Democrats
Dulles
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Saud
FBI cracks new Russian spy ring in New York arrest
The FBI arrested Jack Soble Myra Soble and Jacob Albam in New York on espionage conspiracy charges. Hoover said Soble supervised other Soviet agents and the group acted as Soviet agents without State Department notification. More individuals, including Soviet officials, may be involved.
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New York
FBI Today
Myra Soble
Jack Soble
Russia
U. S
Jacob Albam
Brooklyn Tea and Spice Company
FBI
United States
Soble
Albam
Hoover
Sobles
Rabies Conference Set for Logan Monday
A State Health Department official will join Logan and county officials Monday afternoon to discuss rabies prevention. Dr. Paul R. Schnurrenberger will review rising case numbers in Hocking County, Jackson County, and consider mandatory rabies vaccination for dogs before licensing.
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State Health Department
Logan
Paul R. Schnurrenberger
Hocking County
Jackson County
Ohio high school athletics chief blames adults for games' discourtesy wave
Ohio High School Athletic Association commissioner H W Emschler warned that a wave of discourtesy at basketball games is sweeping the state. He urged better adult leadership, considered limiting spectators to students and teachers, and pressed for a program of fair play taught by schools to curb misconduct.
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Ohio
Columbus
H. W. Emschler
Emschler
Ohio High School Athlete
State Association
Jet Spans U. S. In 3 Hours 47 Minutes
Six-jet B47 transcontinental flight from March Air Force Base California to Hanscom Field Massachusetts covered 2700 miles at 715 mph average. Maj. Mont Smith led the test to study the jet stream with observers noting weather favorable and jet core located around 34 500 to 36 500 feet. The flight aimed to assess locating a jet stream for an eastbound tailwind.
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Bedford
Mass
Mont Smith
Champaign
Til
March Air Force Base
Calif
Hanscom Air Force Base
Air Force
Maj. Smith
Charles F. Hawkins
South Windsor
Conn
Hawkins
Albuquerque
N. M
Hartford
Consumer Prices Continue Rise in December 1956
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports December 1956 prices up 0.2 percent, totaling a 3 percent annual rise. Food and clothing held steady while transportation dipped. housing costs surged by half a percent, driving the overall index to a record 118 percent of the 1947-49 average.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Three Airmen Survive Collision Off Cuba Coast
Three Air Force airmen in good condition were rescued after two Stratojet bombers, part of a refueling exercise, collided and crashed off Cuba's southwest coast. The Coast Guard spotted a life raft and an Air Force amphibian plane retrieved the survivors.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
U. S. Coast Guard
Air Force
UN chief cites legal barriers to Israel withdrawal from Gaza
Dag Hammarskjold reports to the General Assembly that Israel has not fully complied with the demand for complete withdrawal from Egypt by Thursday night. Security concerns persist as Israel states it will remain in Gaza and Sharm El Sheikh until its interests are safeguarded, sparking debate over UN emergency force deployment and potential sanctions.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
Gaza Strip
General Assembly
Egypt
Sharm el Sheikh
Gulf of Aqaba
Hammarskjold
U. N
United States
U.N
Nasser
Gaza
David Ben- Gurion
Skid Row figure tied to slayings in Grimes sisters case
Chicago authorities focus on Bennie Bedwill 21 as a person of interest in the December 28 disappearance of Barbara 15 and Patricia 13. Bedwill, a skid row dishwasher, was questioned after witnesses placed the sisters with him at multiple eateries.
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Grimes Sisters
Joseph Lohman
Bennie Bedwill
Barbara Grimes
Patricia
Willow Springs
Lohman
Bedwill
Paris
Tenn
Grimes
Skid Row
Casey Jarzen
Stickney
Mary
Donna
Chester Wiziecki
Loretta Grimes
Barbara
South Side
Anne Pobich
Hunter Named Wilmington Editor
Tom Hunter, former Lima News business editor, will become editor of the Wilmington News Journal on March 1 succeeding Robert McNemar. Hunter returns to active newspaper work after serving in the public relations department of the Lima Hamilton Baldwin Corp in Lima. McNemar's plans were not announced.
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Wilmington
Tom Hunter
Lima News
Robert McNemar
Wilmington News Journal
Hunter
Lima-Hamilton-Baldwin Corp
Lima
McNemar
Road Deaths Dip in Ohio in 1956
Ohio traffic fatalities fell three percent in 1956, dropping from 1,481 in 1955 to 1,427, according to the Ohio Department of Highway Safety.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Department of Highway Safety
Sleet Or More Snow Due In County Tonight
Hocking County endured a three hour snowfall with rapid thaw by noon and slick roads. Forecast calls for snow or sleet tonight and a partly cloudy cold Saturday with a new cold wave bringing teens to most areas.
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Hocking County
Mercury
Ohio
Ex Professor Dies in Cambridge at 81
Dr. Louis B. Lord aged 81 former classics professor at Oberlin College Oberlin Ohio died Thursday at his Cambridge Massachusetts home He retired from Oberlin faculty in 1941
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Cambridge
Mass
Louis B. Lord
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Ohio
Ed Mock 70 Dies of Heart Attack at Home
John Edward Ed Mock age 70 died of a heart attack at 2 15 p m at his home 439 West Street after illness and a doctor advised rest He was a W H Chevrolet body repair foreman for 14 years Survivors include wife Anna two sons Harry V Mock of South Logan and Wayne Mock of Tucson a brother Harry Mock of Logan and a grandchild Funeral arrangements pending at Leonard Funeral Home with services to follow at the residence.
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Ed) Mock
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W&h Chevrolet
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Fannie Petrel Mock
Logan
Logan First Presbyterian Church
Macabee Lodge No. 379
Anna
Harry V. Mock
South Logan
Wayne Mock
Tucson
Ariz
Harry Mock
Earl Mock
Pittsburgh
Leonard Funeral Home
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